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Name
  
Joan Kramer

Role
  
Singer


Spouse
  
Alex Kramer (m. ?–1990)

Education
  
Finch College

Died
  
July 12, 1990, Westport, Connecticut, United States

Movies
  
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

Similar People
  
Mack David, Hy Zaret, Kenneth Anger, Cecil B DeMille, Norman Z McLeod

Joan Whitney Kramer (June 26, 1914 – July 12, 1990) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Early years

Kramer was born Zoe Parenteau in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her early music training came while singing in the choir in her church. She attended Finch College in New York City.

Career

In 1934, while playing a showgirl in The Great Waltz on Broadway, she took the stage name Joan Whitney. She studied voice under Alex Kramer, who later collaborated with her on a number of songs including "Candy", Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens, and "Far Away Places". Kramer and Whitney married and had a son, Doren, while living in Forest Hills, New York.

Death

Joan Whitney died on July 12, 1990 in Westport, Connecticut, aged 76, from Alzheimer's disease.

with Alex Kramer

  • "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" (1946)
  • "Behave Yourself"
  • "Comme Ci Comme Ca" -English lyrics by- Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer -music by- Bruno Coquatrix (1949)
  • "Deep as the River" (recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1949)
  • "Far Away Places" (1948)
  • "High on a Windy Hill" (1940)
  • "I Only Saw Him (You) Once" (1947)
  • "Love Somebody" (1947)
  • "Money Is the Root of All Evil (Take It Away Take It Away Take It Away)" (1945)
  • "No Man Is an Island"
  • "That's The Way It Is" (1945)
  • "Why Is It?" (1940)

    • with Mack David and Alex Kramer

  • "Candy" (1944)
  • "Come With Me My Honey (The Song Of Calypso Joe)" (fox-trot rhumba), song featured by Bob Crosby and His Band in the film 'Meet Miss Bobby Sox' (1944)
  • "It's Love, Love, Love" (1943)

    • with Hy Zaret and Alex Kramer

  • "I'm Not Afraid" (1952)
  • "It All Comes Back To Me Now" (1940)
  • "Got A Letter From My Kid Today" (1940)
  • "My Sister and I" (1941)
  • "So You're The One" (1940)
  • "The Doll With A Sawdust Heart" (1951)
  • "To Be Loved By You" (1952)
  • "You'll Never Get Away" (1952)

    • References

    Joan Whitney Kramer Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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